Green Butterfly Vegan cookie

This is a picture of the official Green Butterfly Vegan cookie! (on a compostable plate!)
Baking vegan simply means no eggs, milk, or animal product butter. What you have to watch out for when baking vegan is texture and consistency in order to have a dough/batter that you can work with and sets up correctly.
These cookies are not only vegan, but also wheat and gluten free!
Here is the recipe I used for this batch -
2 cups vegan, wheat free, gluten free flour - I used an all purpose one from red mill
1 c sugar - I used an organic sugar
1 c vegan butter - I used earth balance
2 ts extract - I used almond - again organic -
a pinch of salt
2 TB water


cream sugar and butter then add flour, extract, salt and water
thoroughly mix the dough - you may need to add a little more water, or flour to get a good mixture
This dough needs to chill completely - put it in the fridge until firm - it is best to wrap it in parchment or wax paper, and shape it into a log.

When you are ready to work with the dough, you have a couple of options - the easiest is to create balls, roll in organic sugar (white or brown) indent wth your thumb and fill with an all natural, sugar free preserve.
If you wish to make shapes as I did hear, you will need to thoroughly flour the surface and roll out, flatten the dough  - this is a fairly delicate dough, so I found that keeping the dough about a 1/4" thick worked the best, as well as using a larger cookie cutter.
Bake at 350 degrees until golden on the bottom. I also baked these on parchment paper.

While the cookies are baking, make the vegan frosting
it will depend on how much you need, but I used
1 c powdered sugar - organic
1/4 c vegan butter - earth balance
and to flavor - lime juice, zest, and a little fresh mint
You can flavor with extract, other fruit juice or just mix the sugar and butter.
The butter needs to be soft in order to mix it well - keep in mind you will not have the consistency of store bought, canned frosting, but the flavor will be awesome!
Refrigerate the frosting until you are ready to use - the cookies need to be completely cooled before frosting -
This is a basic recipe that can be adapted. You can play around with flavors until you find the ones you and your family like best. The Good news is, you have a yummy cookie you can feel good about serving your family! Even my son, the non-sweet eater (pretty much) says they are good!
Happy Baking!!